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Matt
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Nickname | Matt |
| Age | 19 | |
| Foreign Languages | Spanish | |
| Interests | Soccer, Photography, Swimming, diving, gymnastics, formal dancing, hunting | |
| Host District | 4800 | |
| Departure | 8/16/02 | |
| Birthday | May 24 | |
Students: To add a message to your travelogue, email the entry to vicki; she will put all entries online.
Note: Most Recent Entries Appear At the Top
| Date | Travelogue Entry |
| Thursday, April 10, 2003 12:24 |
The stay has be great, i will get back may 31, in the mid of day.
you can count me in on that rotary reunion. im always ready to meet
other exchange students, especially the ones i already know, haha,
well i have been a good exchange student so far, just ran into
alittle problems with my first host family. Tucuman is a good place
to do an exchange, where ever you go, you just grow to love the
place your at. Tucuman may be the poorest province, the most
overcrowed per square kilometer, the dirtest, but its a good place.
i have to give my first speech in may about my exchange, so i have
to bedazel them with my great speech giving skills. i took this year
to be alone, and its been good so far.
talk to you later matt |
| Monday,
February 03, 2003 12:48 PM wow almost done
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ok, well been awhile, im typing this while my sister listen to there
stupid cumbia, the most annoying music i have ever heard, donīt
worry ill bring back the best of cumbia here, for you listen
pleasures. bueno, i went to the south it was amazing. went the the
southern most city in the world, i think its the most beautiful city
i have ever been to. well the trip to the south was awhile ago. i
have pics donīt worry and funny stories. so recently i went to
brazil, amazing. brazilian people have such a different vibe than
the rest of where i have been. and i came back to tucuman my home,
been chillin, im going to chill in tucuman for awhile. ive seen alot,
experinced alot too, more than i have in the states. its so hot
here, i have to wear i wet rag either around my head or my back and
shoulders for most of the day, and when i sleep. ok funny things
that have happened to me, i have one from today. my friends and i
went to a club to swim, but before we could enter we had to go next
door and get checked. like our lungs, heart, and they checked in
between our toes, i was cracking up the hole time, and then she
asked if i had any problems with my package. a basic physical before
we could swim. weird huh? and last night i was walking home and i
round the corner to my street and this guy with make up on lungged
at me, there are some wierd people here, you always have to be on
your toes, que puto. well my friend just showed up,im out
chau
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| happy late
late merry christmas, and late ano nuevo Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:31 PM |
que haces????????? well merry christmas and a happy new year. un
beso grande for all. i leave for brazil tomorow, well, i
switched fams today, cool family. one day in the new house and then
off to a island in brazil. ill take pics. i got back from san juan
this morning, san juan is nice, alot more fresh than tucuman, but
tucuman is where its at. well chau for now
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| Tuesday,
November 12, 2002 2:05 PM
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hey everybody, im leaving for the south in a few, so ill write when
i get back on the great adventures i had.
later
matt
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| Thursday,
October 31, 2002 2:28 PM
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I recieved my first report card in a new country, and its pretty good for not doing anything. I was impressed with so many 7's, but in the states I would be failing. oh well, I didn't come here to study Phisic's, Law, Mathmatics, and some others I can't translate. And some times I don't even know what class I'm in, its crazy. well look it over, give me a response on my work. |
| Monday,
October 14, 2002 1:50 PM In Argentina isn't it Crazy
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hellloooooooo vietnam! How is everyone doing? Im good. Thanks to all that have emailed me personally, and sorry that im slow to return personal emails, I do try. I just finished Road Trip the movie, and it still cracks me up. They show good movies here, I was suprised. I really can't say much now, I thought I had my thoughts together, but when it came to it, i've lost them all. Ahhhhh, well i've changed schools, know attend Aconquija colegio, its a good school, i speak more spanish there because the kids hardly speak any english, so thats good. And I also attend Institute Anglo, its a college. I'm able to hang out with kids my age. I like the school but I don't like going to school all day. I'm real tired at the end of the day. I got on a scale the other day, man im a twig! haha it sucks. I've lost some wieght, I need to get back to the gym. Tomorrow, I start working out again. I had no idea i was going to shrink this much. Umm whats else is new. We had a Rotary meeting the other day, First time i visited all the exchange students, they are all cool, I thought that there was going to be more, but just the happy 11 of us. Man its getting hot here, like 85 90 F. And it just turned spring, its rain a total of two times since i got here, and the first time it hailed also, it was crazy. Last night I went with a friend to a club called Hipico, its an outside club, its real good, but its to stinkin' hot here. Oh yea about the language thing, I think you start speaking more when you understand more, and thats all I have to say. I still can't wait to go on the trip to the south b/c when I leave for that, there will be no more secondary school for me, just me and my camera and some university classes. This is a laugh, I got another hair cut, third one in a month and half, hahahaha. So my hair is back to normal. ahhhhh hace color, no??? chau matt P.S. there will be another email soon, i will take notes, and get my thoughts together
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| Tuesday, September 17, 2002 9:59 PM | hola a todos how is everyone doing, Im really great. Today is one month since I arrived here, and its been all fun.
I went to the mountains this past weekend, very beautiful. But its the off season for this tourist town so there were not that many people there. We hiked up this mountain its was great, but the altitude killed me. Here is a story about my hair. I went into a barbra
shop, to get my hair trimed. Some friends and I needed a hair cut. The
guy asked me what I wanted I told him that I wanted a little of
the top and the sides, the same lenghth all around. Well what
turned out was not what i said, He just started chopping away,
butchering my
In about two weeks rotary is taking a trip to the south of argentina, oh man, im going to patagonia i can't wait, its going to be awesome, im an international camper now haha.
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| Tuesday, September 03, 2002 7:52 AM | oooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, jebus. whats up,
how has your week slash weekend been.
a funny story, I was at an argentina resturant, where they serve
empanadas (oh the best). but anyways at the, during the main course
they surved us fries with eggs in them, its was very unusual, so i
tried it and it tasted as what it looked. but another story is for
desert they served a typical argentine dish, which i thought was going
to be orginal, but it wasn't, i was like this looks like scrambled
eggs, and but anyways for some of yous out there is going to think its
funny (you know who you are) and others well you spent your time
reading a pointless email. but anyways my first day of school was monday. My school is so small. I have about 20 in my class, as in my grade. Everybody is so disrespectful towards the teachers. I did nothing, I stared at the wall, looked at side, listened to my music, read a book, a spanish course book. looked up, looked down. slept. looked outside somemore pretty pointless untill i can understand the language alittle better. I can understanding the big idea, but not details. so i zone out which is bad, but im ADD so im the best at it. the best part of the day was when my chem teacher started
cussing at me in english it was so funny, because she didn't know what
she was talking about and she was saying everything wrong. but we
joked back and forth for a while, we didn't get anything done durning
that class. well thats what it constist of. |
| Monday,
August 19, 2002 16:12 |
Beuno dias chicos! >Como andas? how is everyone doing. im great, this place is unbelievable. When i first arrived to Beunos Aires (They pronouce it like one word Beunosires) its wierd but thats how they do things around here. well the airports were simple to get around. i had to take a bus to the domestic airport in argentina, called aeroparke. i had a nine hour lay over ... i slept underneath the chairs, everyonce in a while a security guard would come and check on me and see if i was the taliban. :) jk. when i arrive to tucuman, my first impression was, it was alot like mexico, hell on the streets, but then we went down town, and it totally changed my perspective. ewwwww so beautiful. the next day was my first asado, a argentina barbeque, very good awesome sorry slowhand barbeque. My host bro and i went to town at night, very cool everybody is there, from 9 year olds to 60 years of age, very generation diversity. Alot of beauiful people here. everybody dresses very sexy, very fashionable. so i fit in very well, haha. jk. Im learning spanish phrases and such, meeting people, tonight i will meet another male exchange student. well im going to go, hope everyone is doing well, chau > matt |
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